Another 40th Anniversary that seems to have gone by without much comment

Truly, I think it was a lapse. In judgement, in panic, and in the light of a political powerhouse that the brothers Kennedy had formed, and the ambitions that they had, that lapse cost him dearly.

Not just any hope of Presidential office, but I do think personally he was deeply affected. And in the light of how politics run in this country, I fear that he will never truly be able to comment on the truth of the matter.

This month has seen some odd things. The death of legends, and not in small numbers it seems, have overshadowed events, and in many ways, the Chappaquiddick incident has always been overshadowed by an event that was so grand in scope, and in many ways the entire opposite of that accident and retreat into thin excuses.

I don't bear Senator Kennedy personal malice, nor do I bring up these events to sharpen a stick to poke at him, but rather this article reminded me that we are constantly caught in tides of events, large and small. And sometimes the ones that we'd like to forget, are ones that have shaped our times just as much as the great ones.

Had Ted Kennedy not been involved in this sad event, what would his chances have been? Where would his ambition and his oratorical power have taken him? Would it have made that much of a difference?

I think that our nation took a very different turn when that car went into the water, and Mary's article put me into a pondering mood.

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Hubie was born on the lovely island of Okinawa, moved from there to San Francisco, and then onto Missouri, Texas, Maine, South Carolina, Georgia, Lousiana, Germany, back to Texas, back to Maine, and then onto the Happy Valley of Massachusetts. He considers himself Kraut/Mick/Nip, and is glad to be a bit of a redneck in Yankeeland. Then he moved to another Happy Valley, but damn this is one is a lot more parched... He cooks when he's not Farking, or writing, or Farking, when he's supposed to be writing. He rarely bounces anymore, as he's discovered that excitement and interesting are over rated. He drinks his liquor straight; prefers the company of women to girls, men to boys; and considers himself to be fairly Conservative in the sense that he likes to Constitution as it stands, and is constantly amazed that folks who like the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th sometimes seem to forget the 2nd, and visa versa. He spent some time as a Young Republican, but then got better. He now votes for whoever he damn well feels like.